..we, and I mean humans, are meaning makers. We do not discover the meanings of mysterious things, we invent them. We make meanings because meaninglessness terrifies us above all things. More than snakes, even. More than falling, or the dark. We trick ourselves into seeing meanings in things, when in fact all we are doing is grafting our meanings onto the universe to comfort ourselves. We gild the chaos of the universe with our symbols. To admit that something is meaningless is just like falling backward into darkness." (p184) . Benjamin Hale
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Christopher Nolan, in his book "Memento", says that we are the meaning makers, not the universe. We are the ones who come up with our own meanings. We are not discovering things for themselves, but rather creating our own meanings. It is not the case that there are no meanings, but there are no larger meanings. There is no god out there controlling all of this, but humans themselves create their own meanings, which they then project onto the world around them.

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